Monika Kruse
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Monika Kruse (born 23 July 1971) is a German techno DJ/producer and record label owner with a career in experimental music spanning more than 25 years.
She appeared in the early 1990s and was one of the first wave of German techno artists to tour internationally, before heading to Berlin at the end of the decade, where she founded her Terminal M record label. Kruse has remained a fixture on the international house and techno scene, with regular appearances at major European events like Awakenings and Time Warp, as well as her No. Historical Backspin charity, which she established in 2000.
Recording career
At the end of 1997, Kruse released her first solo production on a compilation and moved to Berlin, where she released her first mix CD. Around this time she met Patrick Lindsey, and together they collaborated as producers over several years under the name Monika Kruse @ Voodooamt. Their first release came in 1998. In 2000, Kruse founded her first label Terminal M.
2001 saw the release of the first Monika Kruse @ Voodooamt album, Panorama, with Patrick Lindsey.
In 2003 she founded another record label, Electric Avenue Recordings. In summer she had a hit in Europe with her track "Latin Lovers", which reached #1 in the Dutch dance charts the top 20 in the Spanish sales charts. Passengers, her second LP, was released in autumn 2003.
In 2007 Monika Kruse began a productive cooperation with Worms-based Gregor Tresher. Their first production "GTMK - and more..." came out in July 2007 - followed by another 12" GTMK - Panchakarma on Dutch label Intacto.
In 2008 Kruse released her acclaimed debut solo longplayer, ‘Changes of Perception’ – which clocked in at number 2 on Raveline Magazine*’s ‘Best Album of the year 2008’
Kruse's follow up album ‘Traces’ came four years after ‘Changes of Perception’ and is an expression of Kruse's personal and musical influences over the years – "It's a combinations of different electronic styles which have all had a big impact on me"
Though she began working on ‘Traces’ in February 2011, she took a break during the course of creating the album due to the death of her mother. She returned to the studio in the autumn and completed it in February 2012, finding catharsis in her love for music - "When my mother was sick and died, that was not easy, but when I start to spin I immediately – when the first record is playing – I forget everything about me and I just hear the music".
2017 sees the release of a ‘Get Me On’, a new EP from Kruse and her long-time collaborators Pig&Dan, with whom she has made four EP's with. Talking about her relationship with the duo, Kruse says "I'm always happy to spend time with my brothers in the studio because we have so much fun and it just flows."
Monika says she bonded with Pig&Dan in Ibiza more than ten years ago: "I remember clicking with them from the first moment and we’ve been great friends ever since. Even at that early point we had the idea to go into the studio together, but it took years until it actually happened for the first EP".
Monika believes ‘Get Me On’ to be one of her most emotional production works – "It was extra special because it was during my time-out moment where I was doing a lot of meditation and I think that reflects in the EP".